>>8387324Looking at it, again ignoring the US. It does seem to be pretty much the Asia-Pacific region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-PacificBar Russia (that might fall under Europe as that's a weird one), I can only assume the US got added either due to market size, links to one country in the region or simply because it's DC.
So it could simply just be a regional license with some odd restrictions. But like
>>8387337 said, it's a futile effort but I think one of the most likely reasons.